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A translucent dragon with gusty wings, lands on the muddy ground. Their wings disappear and white eyes scan the path to the Great Tree. The dragon steps over, greeted with tiny fairies lighting up. Upon arriving at the Great Tree, a small fairy knocks on the trunk and the wood starts to morph into a tunnel.
A green fairy floats inside the tunnel and looks to see the translucent dragon. The dragon follows the small creature into the tunnel, hearing the faint flutter of the fairy’s wings and the hurricane rumbling in its body. They come to a stop at a concrete wall, with ancient runes written on it. The dragon tilts its head and turns to the Fairy.
The fairy flutters to the wall and whistles the words written. The small creature emits a glowing, green light from their palms and place them against the concrete. The ancient runes starts to glow and the wall starts to split in half. The wall led to a stairway and flowers began to glow every time they pass by.
The dragon took the final step and saw a huge entrance, with trees covering them. Flowers, moss and roots were all over the place. The smell of earth was everywhere, earth air. The dragon took a deep breath and exhaled loudly. Clean and natural, that’s what the air smells like.
The fairy whistles and motions the dragon to follow. Walking inside the temple, the dragon sees multiple other dragons: varying sizes, colors, features, but they all smell the same. They smell like earth because they’re connected to it. Just like how Air dragons are different but smell the same.
The Earth dragons stare at the translucent dragon. Translucent, white dragons symbolize air, mostly to blend into the clouds. Exactly how Earth dragons are mostly earthy colors to blend in with nature. The fairy whistles at the staring dragons and they all look away.
The dragon walks a little longer, appreciating the Earth dragon’s home. No matter how many times the dragon has visited, they’re still in awe at the natural beauty. When the Fairy whistles and motions at the Grand Temple, the dragon nods and walks inside.
Inside is three other dragons, one of them is sitting in a large body of water. The dragon’s body was entirely made up of water, with aquatic animals roaming inside of its body.
The second dragon was surrounded by ash, the concrete of the temple being burned by the dragon. The dragon’s body, entirely made up of flames and magma. Magma making up the dragons shape but flames surrounding the magma, the dragon’s core.
The last one was made of wood and rocks with moss, flowers and few animals on. The dragon is bulky and huge, having a whole ecosystem on it’s back.
All three dragons stare at the Air dragon, translucent figure with a hurricane inside their body. The embodiment of an Air dragon. The dragons walks to the empty side of the boulder. The meeting should commence.
“We’re here today because Cascade informed me that Rogues are planning on killing our kind.” The Earth Dragon, Orestes, thumps his tail onto the temple ground, shaking the building.
“Calm down Orestes, we don’t need to disrupt your dragons outside.” The airy voice spoke, Aella, the Air Dragon.
“We can just kill Rogues. My dragons and I have been killing them since they’ve started roaming into our territory and targeting us.” A smooth voice, Cascade, the Water dragon spoke.
“Humans don’t enter our territory?” The husky voice of the fire dragon, Haco, exclaimed.
“Of course no one would go into your territory, they’ll get burned alive.” Cascade yells, a whirlpool starting to form on the dragon’s head.
Aella sighs and looks at Orestes. “We need a plan, we can’t have Rogues entering our Kingdoms and killing us.”
“That’s not the bad part. They’re also kidnapping dragons. I don’t know what they’re doing with them but I don’t want that happening anymore.” Cascade remark. Ripples of water forms on the water dragon and sharks starts swimming towards the ripples.
“Do they know about our evolution?” Hacos asks. Orestes looks at the fire dragon and shakes his head.
“Probably not but even then, they still know our weak spots. They still know how to kill us and it’s dangerous for us to go outside of our kingdom.” They all look at each other and a shark inside of the water dragon bites their jaw.
“As I said before, why not kill them, it's worked before?” Cascade questions and the Great White eats a dolphin.
“I don’t want to kill them. You know how it makes me feel when I burn someone or turn them into ash.” Cascade looks at Haco and flicks water at the dragon. Haco yelps and tries to throw a small flame towards Cascade, but fails when the flame dies when it touched the water.
Aella looks at Cascade and shakes her head. “Your kind are the worst. You kill any chance you get and still deceive with your charming looks.”
“Can we get back to the topic here? What’s our solution to this problem because we decided to ban them from our Kingdom but now they’re attacking, so that didn’t work?” Orestes growls out and Hacos looks at Cascade and than towards Aella and Orestes.
“What if we have an alliance… like, we select a few dragons from each kingdom and they work together to defeat Rogues. It’s like the games my dragons play in their free time.”
“This isn’t a game Hacos, it’s a life and death situation.” Aella blows a harsh wind towards Hacos, making the dragon’s flames flicker. Cascade looks at Hacos and a small puffer fish puffs up on the dragon’s leg.
“I like that idea, the four kingdoms joining forces to defeat Rogues.”
Aella looks at the Water dragon with a displeased visage. “What’s with you killing Rogues?”
Cascade and the sharks snarl at Aella. “What’s with you and not killing Rogues? As far as I know, they haven’t killed or kidnapped your Air dragons.”
Cascade looks at Orestes. “They need fairies and codes to enter your Kingdom.”
She shoots a few water droplets towards the fire dragon. “Hacos can’t have anyone evade their home because they’ll get burned or turned to steam before they even make it. So I’m sorry that I’m very violent towards Rogues who mostly go after MY dragons.
Yes, I may live in hidden water caves but they have stupid ways to find us. Get a ton of your dragons killed and taken, then let’s talk about killing them.” Cascade growls at Aella and glares at Orestes and Hacos. The three dragons stare at each other and Orestes huffs.
“Fine, we’ll do what Hacos suggested. Next problem, who are the selected few?”
The cave was quiet, a few great white shark was resting beside the entrance. A blue sea serpent was counting the whte pearls collected by the sea creatures. The sea serpent had gills along its long neck, a two strings of jewel teardrops connect the skin of the lower lip to shoulders on each side.
Horns protrude from the serpent’s head, bending backwards and the tip curving up. Two smaller horns appear below the previous horns, heading the same direction. The webbed claws organize the precious pearls in sizes and shine.
Shiny, blue scales decorte the sea serpent, not a sign of scars or misplaced scale. Perfection. Fins decorate the serpent’s back spine, a sheer blue color with a tint of white.
The sea serpent sings a lullaby, echoing through the underwater cave. The lullaby is enchanting and alluring, the perfect song for hunting prey. The serpent moves and stores the pearls in the fin pouches. The Great White Sharks wake up starting to move behind the sea serpent. The sea serpent glides through the water and quickly arrives at the shore with trees covering the entrance.
The Great Whites stay at the entrance while the sea serpent went onto shore. They crawl its way to the water tunnel. When the sea serpent got out of the tunnel, it arrived inside a cave, hidden by the waterfall. The serpent crawls towards the waterfall and their head goes through the curtain.
A huge lake covered by mountains and jungle trees. A sandy shore with other serpents basking in the sun, small water dragons swimming and diving into the lake. Dragons perched on small cliffs, watching the younger ones enjoy themselves.
On the other side of the waterfall, a huge mountain with an opening on the top lies a gray dragon, sleeping. The sea serpent dives into the lake, many small openings with dragons and serpents going in and out. Dragons eating tropical fish, seaweed, familiar limbs and mammals caught on land. Some shops selling prized jewels, pearls, and treasures of shrunken ships.
A few dragons that notice the sea serpent bow down and continue doing what they were doing. When the Sea serpent arrives at the cave under the mountain, they enter inside and swim upwards until the temperature drops. Water turns into glacier and when the serpent reaches at the top, they slide onto ice.
The cave is filled with glaciers and frost, few dragons living in cubbies on the wall. A few of the dragons pop their heads outside of the cubbies and chirp. The serpent slides on the ice until it reaches at the end of the cave with a huge arch. The arch was filled with icicles and jewels, nothing out of place.
The sea serpent enters and sees a dragon sleeping in a huge cubby on the wall. Jewels and pearls are piled onto a corner, next to the sleeping ice dragon.
“Minseok, I’m back.” The dragon, Minseok, stirs from his sleep. Minseok’s two layers of white wings with black claws spread out.
His cloudy, blue scales shine with the ice and his belly scales start glowing. Minseok’s ear fins flutter and making sharp whistles, making the icicles shake from the ceiling. Two white, spiraling horns decorate the top of his head. Sharp icicles go down his spine all the way down to his tail, which separates into two sheer fins at the end.
His sky blue eyes stare straight at the serpent, pouch filled with shiny pearls.
“Did you bring me more pearls Junmyeon?” The Ice dragon gets out of his cubby and walks toward Junmyeon who has his pouches filled with shiny pearls.
“They all vary in sizes. There is a black one, small, but it's shiny black.” Junmyeon takes out all the pearls from his pockets and sets them down in front of the light gray dragon.
“You’re the best, you know that, but please be careful out there.” Minseok takes all the pearls and put them on top of his growing pile of treasure. Junmyeon huffs and lays down on the icy floor. Minseok goes toward Junmyeon and rubs his cheeks on his.
Junmyeon sighs and looks up at Minseok. “Mom had to go to meet with the other Kingdom rulers about Rogues. I can already imagine them criticizing her for every action she makes. I hate it, I really do. They don’t have to change locations every time a Rogue gets too close. Mom has to go out into the ocean so she can protect us and the other dragons from getting killed.”
Junmyeon felt a wing cover him. “It hurts a lot. We aren’t all violent but we need to or else we’ll die. We have some sadistic tendencies but that’s different. We used to be so non violent, it’s hard to even say a word about who we were before the entire thing.” Minseok softly hums a tune.
“I know that you're great with killing and all the fighting but I’m not, I can’t even defend myself without getting injured.” Junmyeon huffs, done with his ranting.
“You may not be the best fighter like I am but you’re very tactful and intelligent. You have qualities of a leader, just like your mother and I think that's better than having fighting skills. Pinpointing an opponent's weakness, knowing about formations and solving problems with quick solutions is something that not everyone has Junmyeon.” Minseok sets his paws on the serpent’s head and lays it there. He gently strokes Junmyeon, hoping to calm the younger.
Quick steps and claws scratching on ice were getting closer to the two. A small green serpent looks appears and looks at Junmyeon. “Your Highness is calling you two to the meeting room. She needs you two immediately.”
Junmyeon and Minseok stare at each other quickly before getting up and following the small serpent. They slide on ice and dive into the water quickly; Junmyeon glides smoothly through the water while Minseok swims gracefully.
Arriving in front of a huge cave with two guards, passing them without any trouble. Arriving at the Meeting room, they see the squire, Agua, talking with the Water Dragon through a projection. Agua sees the two male dragons and immediately calls them over. The swim toward the projection and see Junmyeon’s mother.
“Honey, how are you?”
“I’m doing fine mom. Collecting pearls and talking to Minseok, the usual.”
An eel swims toward the projector in the Water Queen’s body. A worried look crosses on her face. “Junmyeon and Minseok, I have a huge favor to ask of both of you. You know about the chaos happening.” They both nod. “We decided to select a few of our dragons to unite with the other dragons and stop this whole mess.”
Minseok gasps and stares at her. “Auntie, you want Junmyeon and I to be your dragons?” Junmyeon gasps at Minseok’s comment and stares at his mother. “Mother, you can’t possibly believe that I can do this. Minseok, I agree but me? What do I have to offer?”
Minseok smacks Junmyeon on the head. “Don’t fucking degrade yourself infront of me.”
“Thank you Minseok for smacking him.” Minseok sheepishly smiles. “My son, you have my blood running in you. You have great leadership qualities and great intelligence. Minseok needs you and I need you.”
Junmyeon looks at his mother and smiles. “Thank you mom, you too Minseok. I needed to hear that.”
“Great, now that we had this conversation, you two didn’t answer my question.” She looks at them, a Great White Shark swimming near her eye.
“Yes, we’ll take your offer mother. We won’t disappoint you.”
His mother laughs at him. “I’m not worried that you’ll disappoint me, I’m worried about the other dragons. I did raise you two, so I know what I’m doing. I’m not so sure about the other dragons though.” The two dragons laugh along.
“You two might need to teach and care for the other dragons like true water dragons, got it. Show them that we’re not all violent, but please show them how to fight and protect themselves.”
The Queen stares at Minseok, who stares back calmly. “As far as I know, they don’t even teach them self defense. Minseok, I’m leaving that to you.” He nods and says, “Yes, Auntie.”
“Now that we have this all settled, tomorrow I’ll pick you up at the entrance to the ocean. I need to go now, fire dragons are so damn loud.” She ends the call with the two dragons and squire laughing.
The two dragons were waiting outside with the Great Whites swimming around them. A baby White was swimming closely to Junmyeon and Minseok.
“Can we take him?” Junmyeon looks at Minseok, who in return rolls his eyes.
“Nope, they live in water and I assure you that most of our time is going to be on land.” Junmyeon sighs and pats the baby shark’s head. A worried look passes his face.
“Are we going to fly? I can’t fly.” Minseok snorts at Junmyeon and shakes his head. “I doubt it. It’s like saying we’re traveling underwater when none of them can swim.” Junmyeon thinks for a moment and hums. “I guess so.”
A ripple in the water appears and a large dragon appears, Junmyeon’s mother. The baby shark gets closer to Minseok and hides under his wing. Minseok chuckles at this while Junmyeon greets his mom.
“Mom, can you do your sea creature thing.”
His mother tilts her head at her son. ”Sea Creature thing?”
“Yes, the one that makes it able to bring something in and out of water.”
A look of realization crosses her features and then she smiles. “For who?” Minseok swims closer to the pair, bringing along the small shark. The shark peaks its head out of the wing and looks at the Water Dragon Queen.
“Hand him over, I’ll do it so he gets to join.” Minseok passes him over to the Queen. A glue light was glowing around the shark before it was gone in a second. “Done, now let’s leave. We need to meet the other dragons that you’re going to work with. I believe that you both can do it, I saw you grow up with my own eyes.”
The dragons and the baby shark starts swimming after the Queen. They swam for a while until the temperature of the water got warmer.
The Queen looks at them and says, “We’ve arrived at the Earth Kingdom, let’s go.” They get out of the water and onto land, rich soil and muddy water started appearing after a few steps.
“I don’t like this at all. It’s getting inside of my scales and claws. I need a bath.” Minseok grumbles to himself and Junmyeon laughs at him, with the shark hanging out in his front pouch. The queen showers Minseok with water, getting rid of the mud.
“Thank you. It would’ve been bothered the entire time.” The queen quitely laughs at Minseok’s honest comment.
They arrive at an appropriate sized lake, surrounded by boulders, trees and plain dirt. Four dragons were already there, talking amongst themselves. The big dragon, Orestes, notices them before the other three earth dragons.
“Cascade, you made the trip quickly.”
“Well, swimming through the ocean isn’t a big problem than walking on land I suppose.”
Orestes laughs at Cascade’s joke before turning stone faced. “I’m deeply sorry for what Aella said, I know your situation is vastly different than ours.”
“It’s fine Orestes but I prefer if Aella said an apology or an understanding to me personally. I appreciate your concern, we appreciate it.” She turns to the two male dragons beside her and a small shark gnawing on a bark of wood.
“Let’s introduce ourselves when everyone arrives but please enjoy the lake. I hope it's to your liking.” Orestes motions with his tail at the glistening lake behind him.
Minseok and Junmyeon runs towards the lake and dive in. The baby shark swims around the lake and eating a few small fishes swimming around. Junmyeon and Minseok swim around the body of water at a quick speed. They stop when they notice their queen stepping inside beside them, settling down in the lake.
“This is more than decent Orestes, thank you.” The Earth King nods and walks toward the three earth dragons who were observing the scene before them. The water dragons were swimming gracefully and smoothly while Cascade watches the small shark swim around.
Footsteps coming closer, Minseok and Junmyeon stop swimming and look at the new arrivals. The smell of fire and ash came closer and Cascade sinks lower to the lake. Hacos and his two dragons, red and white, appear before the Water and Earth dragons.
“Orestes, where is Aella and Cascade? I expected one of them to come before me?” Hacos tilts his head and looks at the small shark swimming in the lake happily.
The white dragon walks toward the lake and goes to take a drink but comes face to face with the Water Queen. The white dragon yelps and jumps back, running behind the red dragon.
“Your dragon yelped, how pathetic.” Cascade stands up to her full size and stares down at the two water dragons. She looks at Minseok and speaks softly at him. “Minseok, I’m going to give you all the jewels and treasures you desire after we finish this disaster.”
“Cascade, you’re here! This is my son and you met his mate already.” Hacos’s tail wacks the red and white dragon forward. They bow at the Queen and look at the two water dragons in the lake.
Cascade bends her neck down toward the fire dragons and smiles. “You’re allowed to drink from this lake but you were about to lick me instead. We wouldn’t want that now, would we?” The white dragon shakes their head with a pink hue painting their cheeks.
The baby shark swims closer to the edge of the lake and grabs a bark from the ground. Orestes walks toward the dragons and exchanges words with Hacos. A moment into their conversation a huge gust of wind appears.
Aella and three of her dragons appear from the sky. Cascade scoffs next to her son and Minseok. The wind dragons land and calmly walk towards the group.
Orestes thumps on the ground and exclaims, “Now that we’re all here, we can introduce our dragons.” All dragons stare at the Earth King as he walks to his three dragons.
He brings forward a dragon, body made of rock and moss. Pine wood barks are running down the dragons back all the way to the tail. The tail had sharp branches going in all directions. The dragon’s head had tree branches growing from their head, like antlers.
“This is my son Kyungsoo, definition of an Earth dragon.” Kyungsoo bows his head and takes a step back.
A black dragon steps up, black, shining scales covering their body. Multiple horns on their head, from jaw to the top of the head like a crown. Bat-like wings, ripped and uneven, open up. Their spine is blank, no thorns, just sleek scales. Their tail, long and sleek like everything else. Gray eyes shine, a contrast between the pitch black body.
“This is Jongin, my son’s mate. He’s great at navigating. The dragon next to him is Yixing, he comes from a family full of Healers.” Yixing, was entirely made out of plants. The stems and leaves all wrapping around each other to make the shape of a dragon. Sharp thorns wrapping around the end of the tail. Roots forming a crown over Yixing’s head and trailing down his spine. Wings made entirely of moss and leaves with a few flower petals.
Yixing shyly smiles and bows at the other dragons. Orestes looks at Cascade, who is looking at the three dragons. “Orestes, do any of your dragons know how to defend themselves.”
A loud sigh can be heard from Aella. “Did you really have to mention something with violence, not everyone knows how to kill like your type.”
“My type? MY TYPE! I would gladly like to see your three dragons fight a Rogue on their own and see them die because they can’t FUCKING defend themselves. I would like to see your face withering with realization that you caused that to happen.”
The lake’s turning into a darker color until it turns blood red, actual blood. Junmyeon and Minseok quickly swim over and lay a comforting paw. “Mom, relax. You turned the lake into a blood pool. Minseok’s here for a reason and everything is going to be fine, we’re going to be fine.”
The lake turns back to its natural state, clear and glistening. Junmyeon turns toward the Air Queen and looks at her straight in the eye. “I would like it if you keep yourself in check. I don’t like it when my mom’s stressed by a horrible comment. You disappoint me, I was excited to see who mother talks to but now I see why she doesn’t talk about you.”
Silence fills the area, even the baby shark stops chewing on the bark. Minseok coughs and Cascade pats Junmyeon’s head. “It’s alright Junmyeon, Minseok is here so you don’t have to worry.” Junmyeon looks at Minseok, who’s holding the baby shark in his hands. Junmyeon nods at his mother and faces the Aella.
“You’ll have to earn my respect if you want me to listen to you.” Junmyeon swims away and towards Minseok and the shark.
Cascade smiles and an eel starts swimming in her tail. “As the attention is on us already, let me introduce my two favorite dragons. Junmyeon’s my son, the next heir of the throne. He’s a sea serpent and the one that scolded Aella.” Junmyeon blushes and continues playing with the shark. “Minseok, is a second son to me and best fighter out of all Water Dragons. He’s going to make sure that none of your dragons die. Their little friend, a baby Great White is tagging along.”
The baby shark breaks the bark in half and goes to look for another one. The two water dragons bow at a perfect 90 degree angle. Orestes looks at the two young dragons and smiles at Cascade.
“They do truly represent the Water Kingdom; Elegance, beauty and power.”
“Well, Orestes I did raise them. Junmyeon has the leadership qualities while Minseok has the power qualities.”
Hacos jumps from his spot and tries to get closer to the lake without touching it. “They’re so shiny.”
“Obviously my dragons are shiny. We take care of ourselves to look enchanting for our prey.” Cascade flicks water at Hacos, making the Fire dragon take a step back.
“Let me introduce my dragons!” Hacos turns toward his two dragons and wraps his flaming tail around them.
“My son Chanyeol!” Chanyeol’s scales are blood red, golden scales running the underside of his neck and belly. Chanyeol’s eyes are burning orange, the same color as the fire down his spine and the end of his tail. Ashy red bat-like wings with fire hanging off the edges. Two long horns protrude from his head, going upwards like antlers.
“This is my son’s mate, Baekhyun!” Baekhyun’s a beautiful white dragon. A long snout with two sharp horns on top of his head. Yellow eyes and yellow claws glow against the white scales covering his body. Pure, white mane running down his neck and stopping at his shoulders. Clear, glass-like wings shine against the sunlight. His tail, from the base starts with white scales but transitions into glass at the end.
Cascade looks at the white dragon, and gets a closer look. “Beautiful. Truly beautiful. Silky mane, shiny scales, and filed claws. Who taught you perfection?”
“Mom, you’re doing it again. What about Minseok?” Cascade stops looking at Baekhyun and looks at Minseok. She grabs Minseok out of the water and hugs him.
“Minseok is on another level of beauty, elegance and power. He has enchanting scales, moves elegantly and kills with such grace and power. I’m so proud that I raised him, what a proud Queen.”
Minseok blushes and his scales starts to glow a pale blue color. Cascade doesn't let go of Minseok, so he decides to relax in the dragon’s arms.
“This leaves me to introduce my three dragons.” Three dragons step forwards and bow gently. “This is my son, Sehun.”
Sehun’s scales are an ashy gray while his underbelly is cream white with outstanding sky blue eyes. He has two horns poking out and medium length mane growing on his neck. White claws on his paws and a long tail. He has feathered wings, white feathers all layers and covering his entire body.
“His mate, Luhan, is the one next to him.” Luhan, is almost like Junmyeon, except that he floats without any wings. Luhan’s golden scales shine in the sunlight, with onyx green eyes. His claws, black, are short and round, not exactly sharp. No horns, no fancy details. Simple yet beautiful.
“Lastly, we have Jongdae.” Jongdae’s pitch black, with a gray undertone. His scales don’t shine, they’re matte. He had frills expand on top of his head like a mohawk, matte black. His wings weren’t outlined by bones and scales, but cartilage and skin. His yellow eyes are the only other color that glows against his black body. His tail wasn’t as long as the other dragon’s but it was moderately sized. No decorated other than the frills on top of his head. He looks pretty boring and not all that fascinating as the other dragons.
Orestes looks at all the dragons and thumps his tail onto the earth. “Should we explain why we chose these specific dragons and why they’ll help. I think it’ll help everyone if we explain.” The kings and Queens nod in agreement. “Cascade, why don’t you go first?”
Cascade looks at the dragon in her arms. “I’ve known Minseok before Jumyeon came along. I’ve seen him grow and know that he has huge potential in fighting. He has the most killings after me so I asked him to come along to teach your dragons how to defend themselves.” She grabs Junmyeon and settles him in her arms with Minseok. “Junmyeon has great leadership qualities. He’s very informed in fighting formations and quick solving skills.”
Cascade picks up the baby shark. “This little one is accompanying them.” The baby shark tries to bite the Queen’s claws but ends up wet.
Aella looks at Cascade with a frown. “What if we don’t want our dragons to learn how to fight?”
“Then you shouldn’t be surprised if your dragons don’t come back.” Minseok speaks up. Everyone stares at him. “As far as I know, none of you have ever fought a Rogue before. Highness didn’t say that I'll be teaching them how to fight, she said I'll be teaching them how to defend themselves.”
Hacos looks at Cascade in shock. “He just talked back.”
“We water dragons take no bullshit from other dragons. So we’re deeply sorry if we’re being completely honest.” All three water dragons smile at Hacos, even the baby shark smiles.
Orestes coughs, gaining the attention of everyone. “I’ll go next. Kyungsoo is great with the terrain, he can sense danger when it’s near, which can help the group. Jongin is great at navigating, as I mentioned before. He can tell which direction and time with the terrain. Yixing is a healer, he can fix any injury or illness.”
Cascade whispers under her breath, “They’ll definitely need Yixing.” Minseok snorts at his aunt and Junmyeon shakes his head. Junmyeon slips out of his mother’s arms and goes to grab the baby shark. The baby shark eyes were slowly shutting, so he puts them in his pouch.
“I’m going next!” Hacos jumps from his spot and accidently shoots small flames. I flame hits Minseok, but he barely flinched or noticed. Some of the other dragons, especially Chanyeol looks at Minseok with his eyes wide open. They don’t say anything but Junmyeon sees this and laughs quietly.
“Baekhyun can provide a source of light in the dark, so they won’t have to walk in the dark. Chanyeol can keep the group warm at night, as it usually gets cold. They’re great support systems to the group and can provide entertainment.”
“This isn’t a joke Hacos.” Aella looks at Hacos with a stern glare. Hacos shrinks back and Cascade notices the two fire dragons hide behind Hacos’s flames.
“It’d be pretty boring if it was all silent, wouldn’t it?” Cascade looks at Hacos with a smile. Hacos nods his head and the two fire dragons look at the Fire King.
“Cascade, don’t try to indulge his childness.” Aella growls at the Water Queen, which results in a growl back.
Cascade looks at the Air Queen and asks, “Do you need help taking that stick out your ass?” Chanyeol snorts fire out of his nose while Junmyeon slaps a webbed paw on his forehead.
Aella looks at Cascade. “Excuse me? Do you need me to show you your place? Cascade smiles, razor sharp teeth shining. “I would gladly like to show you your own place, I’d enjoy tearing you apart.” Minseok, who’s still in the Water Queen’s arms, looks at the commotion and widens his eyes.
“Let’s not fight. Your highness, if you fight her, your going to be at her level. We don’t want that, do we?” Cascade huffs and settles back down. She still glares at Aella, holding Minseok closer to her.
“I’ll introduce mine as I’m the only one left. Sehun is great at telling the weather and predicting it. Luhan is great at protecting himself and others.” Aella looks at Cascade quickly before focusing her attention back. “Jongdae is here because Luhan wouldn’t come without him.”
Jongdae looks at the ground, taking an interest in his claws instead of Aella’s words. He can feel the stares from the other dragons and he isn’t that surprised. He usually gets stares because of his appearance, but he’s grown immune to it at this point.
Junmyeon looks at Minseok, they both had their mouth hung wide open at the Air Dragon’s comment. Minseok notices that Kyungsoo had his jaw dropped to the floor too. Minseok feels the Water dragon grow angry, water secretly boiling.
Cascade looks at both of her dragons and shakes her head. She obviously didn’t like the other dragon.
Orestes looks at the dragons and speaks. “Now that we have the introductions all done, we can rest and enjoy the rest of the day. It must’ve been a long journey all the way here.” A few nods are sent to his direction. “Tomorrow morning we’re going to discuss about the plan. Please, do what you need to do to feel welcomed.”
The dragons all dispersed in their own area, leaving the water dragons in the lake.
“I can see why you don’t like her.” Minseok shakes his head and furrows his eyebrows. “You simply don’t say that.” He thrashes his tail and growls.
“I agree with you dear, but it’s her dragon and we can’t do anything about it.” Junmyeon huffs at his mother’s comment. Cascade lays Minseok down in the lake and stand up. “I’ll get us some fish from the sea. I’ll be back in a bit.”
Junmyeon and Minseok look at each other and laugh. The baby Shark looks at the two dragons laughing. Minseok looks down at the shark and pets it. “We should give them a name.”
Junmyeon looks at the shark and hums. “What should we call them?”
“Bubbles?”
Junmyeon laughs at Minseok and nods. “I love that. Bubbles it is.”
Bubbles starts swimming happily around the lake until it looks behind the two dragons. Behind them is Yixing, looking at them beside a bush. Junmyeon smiles at him and Yixing smiles back.
“Hello.”
Yixing smiles softly. “Hello.”
Minseok stares at the two dragons. A sly smile spreading on his lips. He swims toward the two and pulls Junmyeon’s horns. This made Junmyeon make a weird gurgling yelp.
“Hello, I’m Minseok. It’s nice to meet you.”
“You are enchanting.” Yixing blushes, realizes what he said and stutters an apology .
“You can look all you want, it’s great at catching prey if you know what I mean.” Minseok smirks and Junmyeon tries to push Minseok away from Yixing. If he wants to make friends, he doesn’t need Minseok to intimidate them.
“I like you two. I don’t understand why they tell me to be careful?” Junmyeon and Minseok stare at Yixing, who’s unaware of the comment he made. “They say that you guys are very scary but I don’t think that.”
Minseok looks at Yixing and says, “We must protect you at all costs.”
Yixing blushes at Minseok’s comment. “Thank you. I don’t really like fighting, but I can take care of dragons.”
Minseok squeals at Yixing and drags him into the water. Yixing was soaked from head to claw and he wasn’t drowning. He looks at the arms holding him, Minseok holding him tightly while squealing like a little child with a new toy.
“You’re so adorable and soft. Junmyeon, isn’t he cute and soft?” Minseok looks at Junmyeon, who’s wearing a panicked face. Yixing is laughing as he’s floating in the water.
“I’ve never been in the water.”
Junmyeon looks at Yixing and tilts his head. “Why? Doesn’t it feel great?”
Yixing nods. “It does but I can’t swim, I’ll just sink. My body isn’t made to swim in water like yours.”
“If you ever want to ‘swim’, just tell us and we’ll hold you.” Minseok says and Junmyeon nods along. Yixing giggles and looks at the tiny shark in Junmyeon’s pouch.
“The baby shark is so cute. What’s their name?” Junmyeon looks at Bubbles, who’s sleeping.
“Bubbles. They’re currently sleepy.” Junmyeon whispers while looking down at Bubbles.
Minseok’s ear-fins starts vibrating, which Yixing stares at. The fins start vibrating faster as footsteps approach them. Minseok turns his head towards the small patch of sand near the lake. Baekhyun stands there, awkward, as he tries to walk closer.
“Hey... am I interrupting?” Junmyeon shakes his head as all three of them swim closer to the sand. Yixing gets out of the lake as well as Junmyeon and Minseok. Baekhyun and Yixing stare at the two water dragons in awe.
“Wow, they weren’t joking when they said water dragons are very attractive.” Yixing bobs his head, eyes not leaving Junmyeon. Minseok sees this and smirks and starts walking gracefully to a boulder under the shade. Baekhyun stares at Minseok as he walks, light footsteps and stance shown with power. Junmyeon slithers to the shade near Minseok.
“Genetics.” Minseok says plainly, ice blue eyes staring at Baekhyun. Baekhyun walks closer to the two water dragons and sits. Yixing follows him and they’re all sitting under the shade.
“Let’s get to know each other. We’re going to defeat evil together, might as well prepare ourselves.” Baekhyun looks at the three dragons. Junmyeon looks at Minseok, who’s already asleep.
“Well, Minseok’s sleeping so we might exclude him from the conversation.”
“That’s fine...Junmyeon, right?” Junmyeon nods at Baekhyun, who’s smiling widely.
“I’ve always wondered what the Water Kingdom is like. Tell me about it.” Junmyeon looks at Baekhyun and smiles.
“It’s really secluded. There’s multiple tunnels and we have Great White sharks and Eels guarding the tunnels. We’re surrounded by mountains and trees. We mostly live under the lake because most dragons except water, can’t swim. Most of us live in caves, waterfalls, and in the lake. We have grand tournaments where the best fighting dragons go against each other to win the title as the best fighter and win a prized jewel from my mother’s hoard. Minseok has won for 3 years straight after coming of age, won the Shining Sea, Crystal Coral and Lunar Lake.”
Baekhgyun and Yixing, with their mouths hung open, look at the sleeping dragon. Minseok doesn’t have a scar on his body. Yixing tilts his head as he looks at Junmyeon.
“What’s the Shining Sea, Crystal Coral and Lunar Lake?”
“It's treasures found by my mother when she was younger. Those are prized possessions from all over the world. She keeps them in her vault inside our home, only Minseok and I entered inside it other than my mom.”
Baekhyun stares at Junmyeon. “So you’re rich, like royalty rich.” Junmyeon nods his head shyly. Yixing looks at Junmyeon and smiles. The sea serpent notices and smiles back. Baekhyun looks at the two and then silently laughs.
A tree branch snaps and the three dragons look over. Cascade has a whole pile of fish wrapped around palm leaves. Junmyeon crawls over and tries to help his mother with the pouch.
“I brought enough fish for us, but I didn’t expect two guests with us? I think we have enough for them.” Cascade looks at the two dragons staring at her.
“It’s okay, your highness. I don’t eat fish or meat of any sort.” Yixing speaks to the Water Queen. Baekhyun walks over and looks at the huge fish. He looks up at the queen and down at the fish.
“Can I have some?” Cascade laughs and nods her head. She heads over to the sleeping dragon and wakes him up.
“Minseok, I brought fish to eat for dinner.” Minseok stirs, his scales shining and his fins spreading out. Opening his eyes and he sees the water queen next to him.
“Auntie?” Baekhyun and Yixing eyes widen while Junmyeon laughs.
“I brought food.” Minseok wakes up and looks at the enormous pile of huge fish. He hums and stretches, his scales shining and his fins fluttering. He walks over to the pile and takes a fish.
Baekhyun, Junmyeon, Bubble and Minseok eat while Yixing eats fruit. Footsteps appear and Cascade looks over and sees Hacos and Chanyeol. Chanyeol looks at Baekhyun, who’s sitting in between the two water dragons, eating fish. Baekhyun didn’t notice his mate and gave his left overs to Minseok, who takes it gladly.
Chanyeol, with his mouth hanging open, marches forward and tries to make himself noticeable. Baekhyun lifts his head and looks at his mate. Baekhyun smiles and offers him a piece of fish.
“Want some? They taste amazing. Never had fish before but it’s really good.” Chanyeol takes a whiff of the fish and scrunches up his nose.
“It’s wet.”
Baekhyun rolls his eyes. “Obviously, they came from the sea.” Junmyeon stares at the scene while munching a fish’s head. Minseok looks between the two, and occasionally looking at the Fire King. Yixing, oblivious at the scene, continues eating his fruit.
“They’re squishy though.” Chanyeol pokes a fish, seeing his finger bounce back at the cold piece of meat.
Baekhyun growls at Chanyeol, making him immediately stiffen. Minseok and Junmyeon stare with wide eyes and looking at each other.
“If you don’t like it, leave it. If you don’t like it wet and squishy, fry it but don’t be a jerk in front of them. They offered food so either you appreciate it or you starve.”
Chanyeol immediately bows his head at Baekhyun and fries his fish. Cascade looks at Hacos with a raised eyebrow. Hacos smiles sheepishly and walks over to Cascade.
“Baekhyun is older than Chanyeol by a couple of months. Baekhyun usually keeps Chanyeol in check and makes sure that he doesn’t do anything stupid. Like father, like son they say.” They both stare at Chanyeol, who’s conversing with the other dragons while frying some fish for himself. “Baekhyun is good for him and I entirely supported him when he wanted a male mate.” Cascade hums and Hacos and looks at her two water dragons. Fire Dragons are very open about same sex mates, same with Air Dragons. It’s nice to know that Hacos accepts his son’s mate.
“It’s hard for us you know. We mate for life and can’t take back what we actually done. Minseok and Junmyeon have it harder, they’re my babies. Minseok, not biologically but I raised him as my own.”
Hacos stares at Cascade and looks at the two water dragons splashing water at Baekhyun, who looks offended. “They’ll find someone, I mean, you raised them.”
“And look at me now. I don’t want them to make the same mistakes as I did. You know what happened and we don’t want the same exact thing to happen.”
“They’re smart enough to not do what you did Cascade. I mean, Junmyeon looks like he’ll make a great mate. Minseok looks like a no bullshit person.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment but do you know how many dragons go up to Minseok? A shit ton, especially with his reputation and status. He needs someone who’ll love him and appreciate him for who he is, not someone who’s looking for a beautiful and powerful dragon mate.”
“I think he’ll find someone like that, he looks like he won’t settle for anyone less.”
Cascade and Hacos laugh and they stare at Junmyeon, who’s feeding Bubbles small pieces of raw fish. Yixing is looking at Bubbles who chews sloppily and wipes his mouth with a leaf.
Hacos looks at Cascade and smiles. “Don’t worry, they’ll find someone.”
This is the author, I know that some of you have your own imaginations and can imagine how each dragon looks like, but people like some of my friends, can't do that and need some sort of picture. So if any of you are wondering what the characters look like, I'll show them here.
Water Dragons:
Minseok
Junmyeon
Fire Dragons:
Chanyeol
Baekhyun
Wind Dragons:
Sehun
Luhan: I literally couldn't find something that I liked so I had to use my imagination on this one, but the closest thing is a Traditional Chinese Dragon.
Jongdae
Earth Dragons:
Kyungsoo
Yixing
Jongin
